Posts by Kathy Groob
Name it. Change it. Responds to Sexist Newsweek Coverage of Michele Bachmann
The following letter to the editor was sent to Newsweek Magazine: On behalf of the Women’s Campaign Forum Foundation (WCF Foundation) and the Women’s Media Center, we are writing to express our disappointment with the sexist nature of your August 15th coverage of presidential candidate and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-06). As organizations committed to eliminating…
Read More“Mom, you’ve got to do this” – daughters encouraged candidate to run
By Kathy Groob, Publisher – While Linda Newell (D-Colorado) was scrambling to find a candidate for an open Colorado senate seat, she did not consider the job for herself. It was only after the party was unable to find someone else that officials came to her saying “why don’t you run?” Ultimately it was Linda Newell’s…
Read MoreFirst Woman Wins Iowa Republican Straw Poll
Huffington Post – AMES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann is Rick Perry’s main rival now in the battle to give Republicans a viable alternative to Mitt Romney. Tim Pawlenty’s campaign is on life support. And Ron Paul’s jaw-dropping straw poll result showed how much the Republican party has turned toward a robust, full-throated, small government conservatism. Those…
Read MoreSen. Patty Murray is chosen as a leader of deficit panel
New York Times— Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, will be co-chairwoman of a powerful new Congressional committee that is supposed to recommend at least $1.5 trillion of additional deficit-reduction measures, the Senate majority leader announced Tuesday. The leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, also appointed two other Democratic senators, Max Baucus of Montana and John Kerry of Massachusetts, to…
Read MoreCongressional Democrats Looking for “Three of a Kind” Win With Kate Marshall in Nevada
By Kathy Groob, Publisher – With a victory in September, Kate Marshall (D-Reno) could become the third Democratic woman to win a special election this year by running on a pro-Medicare and pro-jobs agenda in a heavily red congressional district. Nevada Democrats are betting on State Treasurer Kate Marshall to pull an upset in the…
Read More61-year-old woman begins epic swim from Cuba to Florida
HAVANA – American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad jumped into Cuban waters Sunday evening and set off in a bid to become the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without the aid of a shark cage. Tanned and freckled from long hours training in the open seas of the Caribbean, the 61-year-old Nyad expressed…
Read MoreComing Monday, Aug. 15 – HBO Special Premiere About the Life of Gloria Steinem
HBO will premiere its documentary about the life of Gloria Steinem and the birth of the feminist movement in America on Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9 p.m. EST. Gloria is an activist and writer who has been a leader in the social justice and feminist movements since the early 1960’s. A co-founder of MS…
Read MoreThe Shocking Truth for Thirty Percent of Divorced Women
By Jennifer Gauvain for The Huffington Post – It was the day she had dreamed about. Standing barefoot at sunset, “Joni” (a former client of mine whose name I have changed) stood looking at the man she was about to marry. She planned the perfect wedding–a fairytale. There was one hitch–as she looked into her…
Read MoreWith a heavy heart
It is with a heavy heart that I ask that our readers to pause and remember the 31 brave United States solidiers that were killed last night when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. Prayers and condolences go out to the broken-hearted families of all the fallen. This war must end. ABC News – A…
Read MoreIn FAA standoff, GOP played chicken with American jobs
Editor’s note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee, a nationally syndicated columnist and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She was manager for the Al Gore-Joe Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000 and wrote “Cooking With Grease.” By Donna Brazile for…
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